It is the 1st of May and a beautiful spring day in London. I just returned home after having tea at the House of Lords with one of my former school teachers who is now a Dame 🙂 I happened to be near Big Ben when it stuck mid-day. Rarely have I seen both hands pointing...
As I write this, the scaffolding from outside my window is finally being removed, six weeks after it was first put up to investigate a leak from the roof. At the time, I wrote about how the scaffolding had first been put up against the wrong house! I also used the...
It is Friday the 13th! In many cultures, a Friday occurring on the 13th day of any month is considered to be a day of bad luck. This is especially so amongst English, German, Polish and Portuguese-speaking cultures around the globe. Strangely, in Greece or Spain...
It seems that there is always something happening around where I live. This morning, the police had to close the road for two hours after a serious accident literally yards from my home. It is only barely two months since I wrote about a motorcyclist being hit on...
This April, I was due to finally run the London marathon. I even wrote in January about how to run your own marathon in 2007. See, I have wanted to run the London marathon for a long time and it looked like this year, on 22nd April, I was finally going to achieve one...
I recently had another article published in a magazine aimed at Asian women, a magazine appropriately called “Asian Woman”. How about that for a highly targeted niche? Though my article was aimed at the Asian women readership, it actually applies to all...
